Improvement in soap



UNITED STATES PATENT Io MARSHALL TURLEY AND JOHN FLEMING, or COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOAP.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,247, dated September 12, 1876 application filed March 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARSHALL TURLEY and JNo. FLEMING, of Council Bluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie, and inmthe State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Compound for Making Soap; and do hereby declare that the following is. a full, clear, and exact thereof: 1

The nature of our invention consists in a soap formed of the glutinous matter of grain, an oily substance, and analkali, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the manufacture of this soap the grain, whether wheat, rye, or barley, is ground and description bolted. We then take the shorts and bran and soak them in water, and leach or press the glue out, which yields about eighty per cent. of glutinous matter. This matter has a Washing and bleaching quality, and has a great aifiuity for alkalies, and might therefore be made into soap without any other ingredients. But as the soap would then be too tough and soft, We add grease, oil, or tallow to the glutinous matter in the proportion of one to three, and enough alkali to saponify;

MARSHALL TURLEY. JOHN FLEMING.

Witnesses l. LrMAN,

JOHN W. BAIRD, D. W. OTIS. 

